Paragon BR 2012 and Windows 8

So I exchanged a defective laptop (Acer Aspire V5) with UEFI and Secure Boot.

I made a backup with Paragon to an external USB drive.

When I got the new machine, I disabled UEFI and ran the restore wizard to wipe the factory new drive and install the backup.

Once the backup was restored, I reenabled UEFI and Secure Boot. Now, I am stuck in a boot loop if "Diagnosing" and "Performing Automatic Repair."

I suspect there is some element of secure boot that is evading me? I have not found much to read about performing backups and restores across UEFI/Secure Boot machines. Am I missing something fundamental? Are images transportable across machines?